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The article discusses the U.S. Department of Commerce's report that exports of recovered paper in 2006 has started with shipments of over 1.3 million. metric tons. According to the report, deliveries of all grades from the U.S. to Canada has declined 11.2 percent in January 2006. However, shipments to all of the top five countries increased by 15.8 percent due to improved orders from China, Mexico, South Korea and India.

Discusses the use of waste materials from the pulp and paper industry to revegetate the Pronto Mine in northern Ontario, Canada. Research conducted by the Elliot Lake Research Field Station of Laurentian University in Ontario on the use of paper mill sludge as surface material to support plant life in the mine; Other uses of paper mill waste in Ontario; Criticisms of several environmental groups in Canada on the harmful chemical contents of paper sludge.

The article offers information on the contributions and legacy of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC). Topics discussed include waste diversion option for used paper packaging, an activity based costing approach to residential recycling programs and PPEC as the first packaging association in Canada.

Mentions Canmore, Albertan Cyndi Foster's use of animal dung in her handmade papers. Colors and textures of Poop Paper; Her comments about using herbivore dung; Public reaction to the paper.

The article offers updates from the U.S. paper stock market as of May 2012. According to several paper stock dealers, there were indicators that domestic recycled board mills have met their inventory needs and are reducing new purchases of old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspapers (ONP) and mixed paper. One major factor affecting the paper stock market are Chinese mill buyers. Several countries with paper stock market slowdown are Mexico and Canada.

The article offers information on the significance of October 2007 to the publication "alive" in Canada. It is the time when it published its 300th issue, which was printed on a 30% post-consumer recycled paper. because of such move, it received a certification from the Forest Stewardship Council and the Rainforest Alliance.

Looks into the effort of British Columbia businesses to recycle waste materials. Factors influencing the motivation to recycle; Success of the recycling effort led by Paul McLaughlin of Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel; Importance of staff education in the success of a recycling program in the workplace; Recycling opportunities in the retail food market.

The article focuses on managing the plastic and paper waste collected by states in Canada as China bans recyclable waste. It discusses how British Columbia is saved from the crisis unlike other states as it already had its own plastic recycling company RecycleSmart Solutions and Merlin Plastics and how used to collect levy from companies using plastic and paper for packaging in order to manage its own recycling program.

The article reports on the plan of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to establish an eco-friendly paper and glass recycling plant, with the partnership of the private-industry recycling company. Accordingly, the planned facility will allow the city to reach its closed-loop recycling through processing waster paper into recycled paper products. Moreover, it notes how the recycling operations will be made and the role of the recycling firm to the plan.

Reports that two Ontario firms, Distican and I.G. Machine and Fibres Ltd., have combined resources to help reduce the largest component of waste clogging landfill sites. Reusing unsold, overstocked and damaged paperback books to create shingles;Ways to use shingles for road bed material.

The article reports that more than 80 percent of Canadians already have access to the recycling of common corrugated boxes and folding cartons. It discusses the benefits of the access to businesses in the country, such as putting the word "recyclable" on their corrugated or folding carton packaging without adding any qualifying statements. It also offers information on how a business can claim recyclability without qualification.

The article explains that mandating the municipalities to collect the rubbish, which are manufactured items such as bottles, clothing and paper, in Canada a hundred years ago appears to be a mistake. Public policy should have required producers to offer customers a service for returning products for recycling. Several provinces now are experimenting on alternatives.

The article offers information on the recycling of waste in Canada. It mentions the impacts of recycling on environment and the views of Dianne Saxe, Ontario's environmental commissioner. It also mentions the information on the Waste Free Ontario Act in Ontario along with the ban on foreign garbage by China.

The article discusses the efforts of Canada's food and beverage industries to provide consumers with greater sustainable solutions. Companies are conserving energy, reducing emissions, reducing packaging, and partnering with other green businesses for the cause. They are participating in recycling programs to divert packaging from landfills. The consumer products industry is also said to be committed to environmentally sustainable business practices like recycling and reducing packaging waste.

The article presents milestones in waste management in Canada. In 1993, the Alberta oil industry launched a program for collecting used oil for recycling. In 1994, paint producers were mandated by law to get back old paint for recycling in British Columbia. In 1995, Manitoba created the Multi-Material Stewardship Board to collect fees from the beverage industry in order to subsidize municipal recycling programs.

The article reports on the plans of Wal-Mart Canada Corp. to expand its recycling program nationwide. It is inferred that the plan was considered based on the success of the company's pilot project wherein a baler was utilized to create "sandwiches" composed of plastic film pressed between layers of corrugated board. The company hopes to include waste products such as used plastic bags, clothing hangers and plastics in the recycling program.

This is an article about recycling in Canada and the demolition of Terminal One at Toronto's Pearson International airport. I bet there's even been the odd time, as you hauled your box of papers or bottles or pop cans to the curb, that you contemplated the possibility this was all a big sham--that the recycling trucks were simply going to dump it all into some landfill site along with all your regular household garbage. Well, in a sense, that's what's happening now at a major deconstruction site at the country's busiest airport, Toronto's Pearson International. We are talking about an amazing on-site recycling project that's taking place under the unsuspecting gaze of thousands of travellers every day. It's happening at the old Terminal One building, opened in 1964 as the airport of the future. Because of its proximity to active runways and crowded buildings, it was never a candidate for that favourite staple of TV news--the 10-second countdown to the imploding building.

Reports on organic waste recycling programs in effect at several Canadian hotels. Machines extract 70 percent of moisture; Mulch up what's left; Have reduced daily flow to the dump by nearly half.

The article reports on the waste management at textile industry in Canada. It highlights the opportunities that the circular economic strategy provided to its stakeholder to stop the lifecycle loop of the garment. Also mentioned is the significant participation of stakeholders involved in the aspect of an item's lifecycle.

The article focuses on various plastic bag legislation in the U.S. and Canada. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has exercised his veto power on a bill that aims to establish a recycling program for plastic bags in the state. Industries affected by the plastic ban in Toronto, Ontario, Canada are seeking to reopen the vote of the Toronto City Council. Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson has ruled in favor of the plastic bag ban imposed in most retail locations in San Francisco, California.

The article discusses how the Carton Council of Canada (CCC) is developing a sustainable recycling supply chain for food and beverage cartons in North America. Topics covered include the digital advertising campaign, the release of the Carton Recycling Primer for sharing expertise about carton recycling, and the high-performance green building materials.

The article discusses sustainability in food packaging in Canada. It says that in food packaging, food safety is one of the most important sustainability factors, which is sometimes overlooked. Companies selling special additives claim that they can make plastic materials biodegradable. Many municipalities are advising against biodegradable resins as they are not recyclable. All packagings are stated to serve an important purpose, especially food packaging.

The article offers news briefs related to green living in Canada. The company 3M is making its Post-it notes from recycled paper. Members of the Earth Club at Stony Mountain School in Manitoba have made progress in improving their local ecology by planting native shade trees and starting a wildflower garden. According to BirdLife International, populations of the North American bird species have declined more than 50 per cent.

The article reports on the announcement made by grocery store chain Whole Foods Market that it will stop using plastic grocery bags at all of its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. It notes that the company aims to eliminate all plastic bags from its stores by April 22, 2008. According to the company, it will distribute over 50,000 reusable shopping bags to customers to celebrate the announcement. It cites that each store will begin to decrease its stocks of disposable plastic grocery bags at its checkouts.

Gives data on a study of Canadian households that recycle. Data from `Households and the Environment 1994,' a study by Statistics Canada of 38,000 households conducted in May 1994; Steadily growing numbers of Canadians recycling household materials, composting and conserving energy and water; Comparison between 1991 and 1994.

The article compares the refuse disposal system being used in Toronto, Canada, to the system being applied in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In Siem Reap, unrecycled waste is thrown in the river, buried, littered or burned. This is not done in Toronto but the city's waste-related problems has let a different set of unsustainable processes. In Siem Reap, there are few recyclables in the waste stream because they are usually sold. In Toronto, its blue box and gray bin programs have been successful, but is still much room for improvement.

Nobody likes schlepping all those blue bins full of used margarine tubs and juice jugs to the curb every week. But at least the hassle is made bearable by the feeling that we're doing our bit to help Mother Earth. The only trouble is that years after recycling programs were rolled out in Canada, their benefits remain debatable. In March, a group of leading environmentalists from Sweden turned decades-old orthodoxy on its head, announcing that all the painstaking rinsing and sorting of recyclables we responsible citizens have done for so long has turned out to be, well, a waste--and that we'd be better off both environmentally and economically if we incinerated it all. Even when it is profitable, the applications for reconstituted products are still pretty narrow. "How many park benches and fence posts do we need?" asks Joseph Gho, chief executive officer of EPI Environmental Products Inc. Gho's company is making an effort to create an additive that makes plastic entirely biodegradable. One of Gho's British licensees, Symphony Plastic Technologies, has convinced giant British retailers like Tesco and Safeway to carry EPI-treated garbage bags, while more major European supermarkets have started using the additive in their grocery sacks. EPI has won support from composting groups worldwide. Next, Gho is hoping he can win the approval of Canadian and U.S. investors, with a share offering in the near future.

The article reports on the additional fuel surcharges to be implemented by Sonoco Products Co. in Hartsville, South Carolina on all its recycling operations in the U.S. and Canada. The surcharges will be based on the Energy Information Administration's Weekly Retail on-Highway Diesel Prices index for collection suppliers. Meanwhile, the surcharges will appear as a separate line item on all invoices starting August 1, 2008.

The article highlights that higher plastics recycling rates continues to be a work in progress in Canada. The author says plastics have become the material of choice for many packaging applications because they help save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Based on the article, plastic packaging accounts for 10 per cent of the household waste stream in Canada, yet the majority is not being recycled. One of the reasons cited why plastics are not being recycled is the inconsistency in Canada's garbage collection system.

The article deals with the challenges facing companies that convert recycled materials into food-grade packaging. Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Union have all taken steps to ensure packaging materials that contain recycled fibres meet stringent safety requirements. All food-packaging materials used in Canada must comply with the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations.

The article discusses the common sense measures being followed by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in Canada which will lead to zero waste in the future. These include: the prohibition of the disposal of recyclable materials; extended producer responsibility programs; user-pay garbage collection systems; the creation of community partnerships; and the removal of compostable material from the waste stream.